Caprice Featured Artists
Caprice's Featured Artists
Here, you can discover more about the talented artists whose work is currently on display at Caprice.
Matt Peterson
Matthew Petersen is a native North Carolinian born and raised in Winston-Salem. He completed the High School Visual Arts program at the North Carolina School of the Arts before graduating from the Maryland Institute, College of Art with a degree in fine arts. He has lived in Wilmington since 2001, working in film and television as a production designer, producer and writer. He has had several exhibitions of his oil paintings in the Wilmington area, including a few solo shows at his favorite restaurant Caprice Bistro.
contact: mbpetersen78@gmail.com
Helen Mirkil
Helen Mirkil is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Certificate and MFA) and the University of Pennsylvania (BFA). She received the British American Travel Grant through the Wales/Philadelphia Exchange and has exhibited widely, including a solo show at Walter Wickiser Gallery in NYC and a traveling solo exhibit of her “Conversations” series.
Her landscape paintings earned her the Valerie Lamb Smith Painting Residency and multiple awards in “Scenes of the Schuylkill.” Her work has also appeared at the National Arts Club in NYC and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Mirkil’s work is held in numerous collections, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Berman Museum of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Michener Art Museum, and Woodmere Art Museum.
Also a poet, she published Sower on the Cliffs and has a second collection, From the Whirlwind, forthcoming. She lives and works in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she enjoys her studio at theArtWorks and life with her husband, children, and grandchildren.
contact: brknvsl12@gmail.com
Blake Brown
Blake Brown is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans abstract expressionism, pop and street art, creative portraiture, and Polaroid film photography. Drawing deep inspiration from sunlight reflecting off ocean water and the infinite line of the horizon, Blake’s art captures a sense of movement, light, and emotional immediacy.
Known for vibrant colors and bold, gestural brushstrokes, Brown’s practice resists confinement to a single style or medium. Whether through layered canvases or experimental instant photography, each piece pulses with raw energy and a restless curiosity. Brown thrives in the in-between—never settling, always evolving—embracing the impermanence and playfulness that defines contemporary expression.
contact: blakeisart@gmail.com
